Recall Efforts May Stall if Democrats Don't Raise Needed Cash

Supporters of the effort to recall Governor Scott Walker need to put their money where their pens are if the movement is going to succeed.

In message to party members and residents on Dec. 7, Mike Tate, chair of the party, said supporters need to bring in $150,000 by Dec. 16 or recall efforts will stall. The money, he wrote, is needed to keep local recall offices open.

Here is his full blog entry:

I have some urgent news to share with you about our grassroots campaign to recall Scott Walker.

It won't happen. We won't recall Scott Walker. We won't restore workers' rights. And we won't elect new leadership that Wisconsin families can trust to create good-paying jobs and get our economy working again.

That's what we won't do if we don't meet our goal of raising another $150,000 by December 16th so we can keep our unprecedented grassroots operation going strong through the sleet and snow ahead.

With your donation of $15 neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep us from recalling Scott Walker.

http://www.wisdems.org/donate/Through-Sleet-And-Snow

In just 12 days, your efforts have helped us collect more than 300,000 recall signatures, but now the hard work begins. With snow on the ground in many parts of the state, winter has definitely arrived. The days are now both shorter and colder, but we can't let old man winter slow us down.

Right now there are more than 100 recall staffers working in 42 offices across Wisconsin to help the more than 20,000 people that have signed up to collect and process signatures in their local communities through the cold, wintery days ahead.

Your donation of $15 or more will keep the fires going and go directly to keeping these offices open through whatever the Wisconsin winter throws our way.

http://www.wisdems.org/donate/Through-Sleet-And-Snow

Scott Walker is trying to whiteout his record of failure with a blizzard of false, misleading television ads from the Koch brothers. In fact, a new report was just released that shows that thanks to Scott Walker's attack on the middle class, Wisconsin now lags behind all of our fellow midwestern states in job creation over the last year.

Don't allow Scott Walker's blizzard to bury working, middle-class families this winter. Please keep our grassroots movement going through the sleet and the snow by making a donation right now towards our critical fundraising goal.